Debra Baxter’s sculptures explore the meanings of missing. BY ALISHA KERLIN | The neck, anatomically speaking, is the part of the body that connects or distinguishes the head from the torso. It may be simplistic, but if one compartmentalizes, thought occurs in the head and feeling occurs somewhere else in the body. Debra Baxter points to […]

Ariane Lopez-Huici’s deconstructs, humanizing myths of femininity. By: JOE FYFE ARIANE LOPEZ-HUICI “Photography” New York Studio School 8 W. Eighth St. Daily, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Through Feb. 2 212-673-6466 The majority of the black and white photographs in Ariane Lopez-Huici’s exhibition at the New York Studio School are a group of four unclothed, uncommonly large […]

BY ANDREW CORNELL ROBINSON | Artist Alex Da Corte’s current body of photographs and sculptural installation examines evidence of power dynamics in human relationships. His work deals with appearances and intimacy – the potency of what lies beneath appearances. His interest is in the soul rather than the surface of the work, the person, or the […]

Visiting Jason Rhoades’ surreal warehouse; noticing the guests have left By: GREGORY MONTREUIL JASON RHOADES “Black Pussy” David Zwirner 525 W. 19th St. Tue.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Through Jan. 26 212-727-2070 Approaching the new installation at David Zwirner, “Black Pussy” appears as the final work by Jason Rhoades, who died in 2006 at 41. The […]

BY GREGORY MONTREUIL | Approaching the new installation at David Zwirner, “Black Pussy” appears as the final work by Jason Rhoades, who died in 2006 at 41. The vestige of a series of soirées planned and executed by Rhoades, the mammoth installation is built around an empty stage. Never one to shy away from hot buttons issues, […]

BY CHRISTINE CALLAHAN | Man tames beast. Somewhere, out there, in a barren land. Who are they? Why do they have hyenas and monkeys on leashes? Are the animals being domesticated as pets or are they weapons or perhaps just curiosities? None of these questions are answered, only raised, in this striking exhibition, “The Hyena and […]

BY CHRISTINE CALLAHAN | Man tames beast. Somewhere, out there, in a barren land. Who are they? Why do they have hyenas and monkeys on leashes? Are the animals being domesticated as pets or are they weapons or perhaps just curiosities? None of these questions are answered, only raised, in this striking exhibition, “The Hyena and Other […]

BY FRANK HOLLIDAY | Torqued Richard Serra’s weatherproof steel “Blind Spot.” Upon entering the Richard Serra show at the Gagosian Gallery, one is awestruck with a sense of majestic presence like when standing before the hull of an aircraft carrier. Four iron-colored sculptures fill and transform the space into a maze of swelling lines and […]

Harvey Redding facilitateserotic drawing workshop By CHRIS SCHMIDT | Being the organizer of the Queer Men’s Erotic Art Workshop, an inevitable question Harvey Redding fields is how he finds his models. “I don’t necessarily look for men who are ‘Chelsea boys’,” he says. “I pick guys who have a sexual appeal, a sense of their own […]

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